Math Jan. 28-Feb. 1

Fourth and Fifth Grade

Monday - Intro centers and projects for the week, multiplication review, Cumulative Test 11A
Project - Feeding a Family for a Week - Due February 19

Fourth Grade
Tuesday - Lesson 59 Subtracting a Fraction from 1
Wednesday - Lesson 60 Finding a Fraction to Complete a Whole
Thursday - Investigation 6 Line Graphs
Friday Cumulative Test 12A

Homework Due Friday Daily Math Warmups Lessons 23-26, 43-46

Fifth Grade
Tuesday - Lesson 60  Polygons
Wednesday - Lesson 61  Adding Three or More Fractions
Thursday - Lesson 62  Writing Mixed Numbers as Improper Fractions
Friday - Cumulative Test 12A

Homework Due Friday Daily Math Warmups Lessons Lessons 67-74

LIT & HISTORY January 28-February 1, 2013

Hello, Students!

This week, we begin a new novel and one of my favorites since I first read it back in the day:  The Witch of Blackbird Pond.  It will usher us into the Thirteen Colonies of the British.  It is a great study in character development, so each of you will be choosing (at random) one of the main characters from the novel to follow throughout your reading.  You will also be creating a Colonial-style doll that will look like and be dressed like your character.  I will be teaching you to sew with a needle and thread, and with a sewing machine, so this will be a fun and exciting unit--even for you, boys!  Just think, you'll always be able to sew on your own buttons from now on!

This week, you will have homework again--the reading and journals  that you aren't able to finish in class will be done each night at home.  You will have a quiz every 4 chapters of the book, and in between, will be asked to respond in writing to one of the book's quotations.  So read carefully!

Your reading logs will be due this Friday, as usual, and you may count your class time reading so long as you are all quietly reading during class.  If  you can't get your reading done at school, you can't count that time.  You can count any reading on The Witch of Blackbird Pond that you read at home on your reading log.

Also due on Friday, February 1, is your permission slip for the Rodeo at the Bell County Expo (the trip is on Wednesday, February 6.)  We do need parent volunteers to drive and chaperone, and you will be bringing a sack lunch that day to eat while on the field trip.

This Friday is the 100th day of school!  We're over the half-way point.  If you know for certain whether you will be attending CCS in the fall or not, please let us know.  It is important for us to know how many of you will be returning so that teachers can be hired and curriculum planned and ordered.  Thank you!

Below are links to your work this week, and your spelling and vocabulary list is below.
See you tomorrow!

This week's schedule of assignments
Grammar for Monday
Grammar for Tuesday
Grammar for Wednesday
Grammar for Thursday
Grammar for Friday
Intro to The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Colonial Dolls
Character Journal for WOBBP Chapters 1-4
Character Journal for WOBBP Chapters 5-8
Character Journal for WOBBP Chapters 9-12
WOBBP Quote for Writing #1
WOBBP Quote for Writing #2
Rubric for Map It Out (map is not available online)

SPELLING and Vocabulary for TEST on Monday, February 4

Learn to spell these words, and be able to match each with its correct definition.

1.  aloof = reserved and apart

2.  chagrined  =  embarrassed or humiliated

3.  constraint  =  repression of behavior or feelings

4.  deft  =  skillful

4.  dour  =  stern or forbidding

5.  frippery  =  showy or gaudy

6.  gaudy  =  cheaply showy, as in dress

7.  grotesquely  =  strangely or in a distorted way

8.  haughtily  =  in a proud or arrogant manner

9.  incredulous  =  doubting or skeptical

10.  monotonous  =  having little variation

11.  nonchalance  =  showing indifference

12.  punctilious  =  very exact and careful

Bible Jan. 28-Feb. 1

Don't forget your homework that is due to me on Monday:

1. Events leading to Christ's baptism Mobile

2. Ministry of Jesus keyword and picture worksheet

Memory Verse:

The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.”

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.

Luke 4:5-8

Monday: Temptation of Christ, reading from reading cards, then complete corresponding worksheet. We will then create a "Word of God" heart for our bible bulletin board about keeping God's word in our hearts at all times as Jesus did.

Friday: Read Luke 4:1-13 from our bibles about the Temptation of Christ and complete the worksheet. We will then read Genesis 3 about Adam and Eve's temptation and compare the similarities between their's and Christ's temptation in the Gospels.

LIT & HISTORY for January 22-25, 2013

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

I hope you are enjoying your extra day of rest this weekend.  Don't forget that we have a spelling test on Tuesday.  This week is very special!  A friend of mine, Mrs. Laura Jo Fojtasek, will be coming to our class on Wednesday to show us photos and talk about her THREE trips to Peru!  We will also have our Mayan feast on Wednesday during your regular lunch time--you won't need to bring  your lunch that day.

Your dads will be in for a treat on Friday (besides donuts and breakfast tacos!)  You will be presenting original plays based on an Inca legend that you will read in class on Tuesday.

You can access this week's schedule here with assignments and due dates.

On Tuesday, when you need to look up information about the Inca, link to the website below:
http://incas.mrdonn.org/index.html

The grammar handouts and reading assignments, if available, can be linked to below.

Study Guide for History Test
Tuesday's Grammar Lesson
Wednesday's Grammar Lesson
Thursday's Grammar Lesson
Friday's Grammar Lesson

Tuesday's In Class Reading:  Incan Primary Sources
Questions on articles about the Inca (these articles are not available online)



Next week's spelling and vocabulary are below.

SPELLING and Vocabulary for TEST on Monday, January 28

Learn to spell these words, and be able to match each with its correct definition.

1.  preposition:  a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.  (aboard, about, above, across . . .)

2.  interjection:  a word that expresses sudden or strong feeling.  Gosh!  I hate when that happens!

3.  contraction:  two words drawn together and shortened by dropping some letters.  Every contraction has an apostrophe [ ‘ ] in it.  The apostrophe tells where the letters were dropped to form the contraction.  Is not = isn’t

4.  apostrophe:  a punctuation mark that shows that letters have been left out, or that a possessive form is being used  [ ‘ ].  She’s as frisky as her mother’s colt.

5.  homonym:  words that are spelled alike and pronounced alike, but have different meanings such as bat (the flying mammal) and bat (used in baseball).

6.  indirect object:  the noun or pronoun that is between the action very and the direct object of a sentence.  It answers the questions “to whom” or “for whom” the action is done.  She gave Mother the soup.

7.  direct quotation:  the exact words that someone says.  Direct quotations are always enclosed by quotation marks [ “  “ ].  She said, “I want to leave!”

8.  indirect quotation:  the content of what a person says without using his or her exact words.  There are no quotation marks surrounding an indirect quotation.  She told him she wanted to leave.

9.  predicate adjective:  an adjective in the complete predicate that describes the subject.  Germs are microscopic.

10.  predicate nominative:  a noun or pronoun in the complete predicate that renames the subject.  A teacher should be a person of character.

Math January 22-25

5th Grade

Monday - Holiday
Tuesday - Lesson 55, 56 Common Denominators
Wednesday - Lesson 57 Adding and Subtracting Fractions:  Three Steps
Thursday - Lesson 58 Probability and Chance
Friday - Lesson 59 Adding Mixed Numbers

Centers -  Leap Frog Fractions, Folder Practice, Superstar Math

Homework - Warm Up Lessons 53-60 - Due Friday January 25

Decimal Jeopardy Game
Soccer Simplify Fractions
Lots of Fraction Games

4th Grade

Monday - Holiday
Tuesday - Lesson 55 Multiplying by Three Digit Numbers
Wednesday - Lesson 56 Multiplying by Three Digit Numbers that Include Zero
Thursday - Lesson 57 Probability
Friday - Lesson 58 Writing Quotients with Mixed Numbers

Centers - Leap Frog Multiplying, Folder Practice, Superstar Math

Homework - Multiplying 2 and 3 Digit Numbers Practice - Due Friday January 25

Links for Practice

Bible: Jan 14-18

Memory Verse:

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:1-4

Monday: Baptism of Jesus TEST - remember those two part answers for some of your questions!

Wednesday- Baptism of Jesus Chapel and International Day!

Friday: Introduce ourselves to the Ministry of Jesus, read from our cards, then complete corresponding worksheet. We will begin reading from our bibles different passages from the different Gospels and complete a key word outline for each.

Researching Your Mayan Artifact

RESEARCHING YOUR MAYAN ARTIFACT

Your job today is to find an artifact like the one you sketched when we were at the Mayborn  in Waco last September, and write about it on a notecard.  Bend the notecard into a tent, then write on the blank side.  This will sit next to your artifact when you display it. 

The information you want to include is:

WHAT YOUR PIECE IS (Bowl, Censor, Dish, etc.)

WHO CREATED IT (Maya)

APPROXIMATE DATE WHEN IT WAS MADE

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections?ao=on&who=Maya&ft=Maya&rpp=20&pg=1

There are 7 pages of Mayan artifacts at this website!

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

http://www.mfa.org/search/collections?keyword=maya+ceramics

This is an amazing site with 10 pages of just Mayan artifacts!


If you don't find any pottery like yours after looking at these two websites for several minutes, go to the
Google Images website and type in "Ancient Mayan Pottery."  It will bring up many pictures.  If you see one that looks like yours, click on it, and it will bring up a bigger version.  Behind that bigger picture will be some writing that will tell about that piece.

HISTORY & LIT for January 7-11, 2013

Hello, Students!

Please read the previous blog post for the New Year and notice the three changes:

            1.  I will no longer micro-grade your handwriting, but if I can’t read an answer,  it will be counted wrong.

            2.  There will be no such thing as bringing a paper in late (unless you are sick.)  If you don’t turn in an assignment on time, you will do it THAT DAY instead of going to PE/Music or both.

            3.  We will continue to schedule our day with Large Group Instruction, followed by your own Individual Time.  Get your work done at school so that you don’t have homework!

This week’s schedule can be found by clicking on this link.  Unfortunately, it is really difficult to transfer a Word document with the charts to a blog post.  So, it is available to you on Box.Net.  You will also get a hard copy of this at school.

I will summarize your assignments & due dates below--you may also link to these papers from this blog post. Your spelling words for this week, and the definitions you must be able to recognize and match, are below. You will need to practice your spelling words and vocabulary at home.

MONDAY, January 7

• Grammar packet 1 DUE today  (I will give you this in class--not available online)
•  Read Part I of Incidents of Travel in Yucatan—follow directions for note-taking

TUESDAY, January 8

• Discussion and Notes for Part I of Travel in Yucatan DUE today
• New SMERFCAPS chart with Maya added, DUE today
• Grammar packet 2 DUE today  (I will give you this in class--not available online)
• Read Part II of Incidents of Travel in Yucatan—follow directions for note-taking--DUE Thursday

WEDNESDAY, January 9

• Mayan Artifact and Note card DUE today
• Grammar packet 3 DUE today (not available online) 
• Sketch and notes for Yucatan reading DUE tomorrow
• Read Chapter 24 in History book:  fill out notes and questionnaire--DUE Friday

THURSDAY, January 10

• Explain sketch of Mayapan today; Notes and Sketches DUE today
• Work on Chapter 24 Notes and Graphic Organizer--DUE tomorrow
• Read and follow directions on Characteristics and pics for Legend—The Mark of theRabbit--DUE Mon
• Work on Grammar for The Mark of the Rabbit--DUE Monday 14
• READING LOGS DUE TOMORROW  

      FRIDAY, January 11

•       READING LOGS DUE TODAY
•       Chapter 24 Notes and Graphic Organizer--DUE today

MONDAY, January 14

•       Spelling/Vocabulary Test over words below
•       DUE:  Maya Map and Rubric; Aztecs on SMERFCAPS chart; Mark of the Rabbit notes and Grammar

               
  SPELLING and Vocabulary for TEST on Monday, January 14

            1.  noun--the name of a person, place, thing, or idea
            2.  pronoun--a word used in place of a noun
            3.  verb--a word that shows action, a state of being, links 2 words together, or helps another verb
            4.  adjective--a word that describes a noun or pronoun.  Adjectives tell:  what kind; which one; how many; and whose.
            5.  sentence--a group of words that expresses a complete thought.  All sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.
            6.  command--a sentence that gives an order or makes a request--ends with a period or an !
            7.  exclamation--a sentence that shows sudden or strong feeling--ends with an !
            8.  question--a sentence that asks something--ends with a ?
            9.  statement--a sentence that gives information--ends with a period.
         
            

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Happy New Year, Students and Parents!

I pray that you have had a fun and restful break, and are excited about coming back to school!  I love January--it's so calm and focused, after all the excitement of the holidays.  We have some great history units and novels to read this semester!

I would like to tell you first about a couple of changes.  I will not be micro-grading your handwriting any more.  You each have mastered cursive writing, and understand how the letters are to be made.  You will still get a handwriting grade, and it will still be an E,S,N, or U.  But it will be based on how legible your writing is on your papers, including spelling tests.  If one of your letters looks like another letter (an "e" looks like an "l," or an "r" looks like a "u") I will count the word wrong.  So be prepared to use what you have learned as you develop your own cursive handwriting style.

The next change I will implement deals with late work.  If you do not turn in a paper ON TIME, you need to be prepared to stay in from music and/or PE the day the assignment is due!  As per school policy, you will have extra time to get worked turned in if you are home sick, or have a family emergency that keeps you from being at school.  But remember that in this age of technology, you can always access papers and assignments here on the blog by linking to Box.Net where I have them posted.  If you are too sick to read or work on school work, you will get extra time.  But if you are waiting for your fever to be gone or your antibiotics to kick in, you can probably manage to stay caught up while you are home.

Finally, I think we all agreed that you liked the way you were able to work ahead, using the weekly assignment charts each week.  So, I will continue to give you your assignments and papers for the week on Monday.  We will have some Large Group Instruction Time each day, and you will have your Individual Time to work at school so that you don't have homework.

Look tomorrow for another post from me that will have our week's work!  Enjoy your weekend and this beautiful sunshine!

Mrs. Horner

Bible: Jan 7-11 2013

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful break!

Memory Verse:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:1-5

Monday: We will go back and review our previous lessons over the Baptism of Jesus and refresh our minds on what we have already learned. We will then read different Gospel passages and see how God gave people revelations that Jesus was his beloved Son. We will then create a mobile from these Gospel narratives. Make sure you bring your art supplies for Monday's class.

Wednesday: Eucharist Chapel - Ephipany "Wise Men"

Friday: We will use our materials on the Baptism of Jesus and prepare for a test on Monday the 14th. Have your prayer journals with you and be prepared to take them home to study!